Sentences with phrase «so saintly»

You need not be so saintly that a self - interested thought never crosses your mind, but your first move should always be to help.

Would you perhaps not be so saintly if / when weeds start choking your lake from your neighbors» fertilizer and / or the old outhouses surrounding it, not to mention some septic systems that aren't up to code?

Assisting in theatre is vastly less enjoyable than catching babies, but I did it with a good grace (so saintly).

I'm sure that was an innocent oversight because everyone knows that coffee is a requirement at any gathering of the saints — or even those who are not so saintly.

Not exact matches

So carrying your own bag and making sure it fits where it belongs are now saintly qualities?

I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.

That prayer - as Augustine's saintly mother Monica so powerfully attested - manifests itself more often than not in tears.

With most of us the customary hardness quickly returns, but not so with saintly persons.

Theologies representing the gods as mindful of their glory, and churches with imperialistic policies, have conspired to fan this temper to a glow, so that intolerance and persecution have come to be vices associated by some of us inseparably with the saintly mind.

They notice that it is permeated by a spirit of deep reverence or piety, that it aims to transform the quality and character of experience in a direction that appears saintly, that it manifests itself in such institutions as temples and monasteries in which there are ritual observances, and so forth.

wev witnessed his attitude first hand and the guy is a selfish mercenary when it comes to previous clubs, id be picking a different fella to paint the saintly picture of if i were you i never wanted a replay, it does nt make sense but i would hav liked henry and fifa to come out and issue an apology to our players and fans, anyway its done know and half your comments are made just to get a rise so i wont oblige you again....

Or will it be such a saintly avatar that it avoids this eventuality, and so will never quite manage to be convincingly human?

So the boisterous, outlandish, fiercely intelligent Django Unchained is at once an act of provocation and reparation — not just for slavery, but for Hollywood's decades of saintly Negroes and sass - talking sidekicks and its relentless whitewashing of history, from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner to The Help.

To do so, the religious shyster (with all the saintly sincerity of an unscrupulous used car salesman) decides to accept one last invitation to reclaim an innocent soul.

Hazel's matter - of - fact - ness doesn't go untempered by fear or sadness, but she and her cohorts are nothing like the saintly, heroic, very quiet sick people who populate so many books and movies.